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Top Use Cases for Order-to-Cash

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. “The time has come to take advantage of it in terms of how we do things and how we might be able to do things better,” says David Schmidt, Managing Director at A2 Resources and former longtime contributor with Credit Today. Collections, payment, and invoicing software can reduce the time for preparation and follow-up.

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Misalignment Between Credit and Sales Spells Trouble

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For a small business owner or executive, navigating credit decisions can be challenging, especially when they clash with the goals of other stakeholders within the company. It's essential, however, for everybody to recognize that credit decisions also have broader implications across various aspects of company operations.

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The Imperative for Modernizing Trade Credit

Your Virtual Credit Manager

As a result, trade credit, where businesses extend financing to customers, is undergoing rapid advancements, but it also poses high risks, especially in assessing creditworthiness, dealing with economic fluctuations, and fraud. Are there past due accounts you are trying to collect? it just might help them pay you sooner!

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How CFOs can Tie Digital Order-to-Cash Initiatives to Enterprise-wide Strategy

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Capturing and analyzing internal and external data and presenting them in the most intelligent and actionable format, and as well intelligently acting on them need a seamlessly integrated digital application that leverages emerging technologies. topline, bottom line, and cash flow.

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Four Goals Guaranteed to Improve Cash Flow

Your Virtual Credit Manager

Hopefully, that is why you are reading Your Virtual Credit Manager. If, however, there are unpaid invoices that have been allowed to go beyond the 90 day mark, you have a serious collection problem. In most cases (90 percent or more), we find the customer has a valid claim and deserves a credit.

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Resolve to Be More Proactive in 2024

Your Virtual Credit Manager

Then last week we looked at credit hold best practices. From a credit management perspective, these are largely reactive topics. In fact, once you decide to sell a customer on open credit, most of the accounts receivable (AR) management tasks that follow have a reactive component. There is nothing wrong with that.

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AR Data Management, AR Automation, & Accelerating Cash Flow

Your Virtual Credit Manager

Over time, AR Ledgers unfortunately tend to collect “Clutter.” Clutter can also cause new orders to be placed on a credit hold when it otherwise would have been automatically released. Share How to Clean Up Your AR Ledger Launch a collection program to collect all past due invoices at least 15 days late.